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I was reading this "interesting" question asking what a for loop is. Needless to say it got many downvotes very fast.

Somebody in the comments said:

Congratulations. In nine minutes, your question has become the lowest-scored visible question on SO.

I wanted to check this for myself so I sorted all SO questions by votes and went to the last page (109887 when this question was written). But the question with the lowest score was this question.

Is this a bug or by design? Or did I do something wrong?

EDIT: the last post in the sort-by-vote page is now the post that originally started this question. But Marc Gravell also found out that the question with the most downvotes is this question. So I guess the original question is still valid.

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    Caching. It's always caching.
    – Mat
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 9:16
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    We don't show all questions in every list - but: I will investigate the rules and get back to you.
    – Marc Gravell
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 9:20
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    So, funny story: I was wondering how that other question had received so many downvotes (I mean, it might be easy, but it's well-written and answerable), but then I saw its original version.
    – Cody Gray
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 9:21
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    btw, the most downvoted question is stackoverflow.com/questions/3905734/…
    – Marc Gravell
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 9:49
  • 148.. Wow! I wouldn't even get that many downvotes if I'd ask what you can do with that weird symbol that contains two horizontal lines.
    – Just J for now
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 9:56
  • Spammers are not looked on kindly by the Internet community. They are far less entertaining than trolls.
    – Cody Gray
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 10:01
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    @Jordy 205 in extended ASCII? you can use that to build box borders in command-line apps
    – Marc Gravell
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 10:06
  • @MarcGravell, everbody knows that one. I mean the one people use in combination with digits and stuff.
    – Just J for now
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 10:12
  • Well, you can find it when searching per tag e.g. this search.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 10:19
  • @ShaWizDowArd, it doesn't always seem work to search by tag. e.g. sorting by votes and [php] shows -12 as the lowest while the most downvoted question has -148 and is tagged with [php].
    – Just J for now
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 10:25
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    As an aside: one can search for ranges like so: votes:-1000..-30 or simply votes:..-30.
    – Arjan
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 10:29
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    @Jordy Hmm, you mean =? I think it means 2, because it has 2 bars. - means 1.
    – Doorknob
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 11:37
  • @Doorknob, I think you're right. That must mean that [≡] is 3 and [ ] is 0.
    – Just J for now
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 12:28
  • I cast the last undelete vote... I couldn't resist :P
    – Doorknob
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 12:33

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EDIT: the last post in the sort-by-vote page is now the post that originally started this question.

Great!

But Marc Gravell also found out that the question with the most downvotes is this question. So I guess the original question is still valid.

Nope; we explicitly exclude posts with historical locks (except on meta sites); the -148 question has a historical lock. The last 5 (at the time of writing) are: -19, -21, -24, -55, -148 : so all accounted for.

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  • Clear as day. Thank you!
    – Just J for now
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 10:56

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